The Teachers
A Teacher
Algernon Blackwood
Storyteller who found awe and dread in living nature.
The transmission
Algernon Henry Blackwood was a British novelist and short-story writer ranked among the masters of supernatural fiction, author of more than two hundred stories and a dozen novels. He joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1900, reaching the inner-order grade of Adeptus Minor.
His work fused occult learning with a profound, sometimes pantheistic, reverence for the natural world.
What they gave
He wrote enduring weird tales such as ‘The Willows’ and ‘The Wendigo’ and the psychic-detective collection ‘John Silence’.
The line they stand in
An Adeptus Minor of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, he combined its ceremonial training with nature mysticism and an interest in Eastern thought.